I don't know if this [1] is the right place to put this but can anyone help me fix this SVG file? When I try to open it in Inkscape it tells me:

Failed to load the requested file /path/to/file.svg

but when I load it up in firefox or my OS's image viewer I can view it fine and it firefox it loads slow enough that I can see various parts of the image show up as if it is not corrupt. I tried editing the file in gedit but I can not tell what is wrong with it. I would really like to get this image working again as it took me a few weeks to create.

"unknown propiety... "rejected declaration"... but the drawing was rendered anyway. And as I said before, Inkscape can open and edit it.- Did you imported or used SVG from other sources not related with Inkscape??

When you all suggested that it might be my machine I thought oh yah I am running ubuntu on a Live USB right now, waiting for a internal hard drive to install Linux on. I thought that maybe the live USB could not handle a 12 MB file right now so I created a new image and used the spray paint tool to create many objects like in the image I am trying to open. Got it to 12 MB's and I can open the new file so that is not it.

I am recovering from a dead drive and just got my hard drive back from Geek Squad So I thought maybe this is just one of many files that was corrupted but it is strange that I can view it in my image viewer, firefox, chrome, and you all can open it in Inkscape.

hulf2012 said:"unknown propiety... "rejected declaration"... but the drawing was rendered anyway. And as I said before, Inkscape can open and edit it.- Did you imported or used SVG from other sources not related with Inkscape??

No I only use Inkscape and I don't even bother opening SVG's with GIMP so that should not be a problem. I looked at the code in firefox as well and it looked fine, don't read SVG, but it looked fine. I did open it in a text editor and it looked a bit strange, it did not mach up with what was shown. It is a bit too much to quote what I see here though.

HelloLazur posted a modified file. I may be wrong, but the embedded raster images doesn't appear in it. Most of the times, embedded raster images causes problems when the hardware is not enough, or the file is too big.Please check if you can open without problems.

Your machine it's even better than mine . Sooo ... RAM is not the problem...Or is it?Live USBs uses RAM to charge their system files. That's is also the reason I find them very fast for some tasks, just based in my experience.

Maybe is the combination of raster images and vector images which is causing problems to open your file, in this special case, where you are using a LiveUSB.

If you can, try to do a test embedding some raster images in your new file. If still doesn't open... What did you find strange in the svg code?... something like:

error on line 1 at column 1: Document is emptyerror on line 1 at column 1: Encoding errorBelow is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

I remembered that this file has about three raster images in it one I know was big. So I put four raster images in my test file and enlarged one. When I did this I could no longer open the image. So now we know that the raster images were a problem.

We also know that everyone except me can open it in inkscape so it might also be that I am Using a live USB. I tested this on my moms crapy laptop as well and it opened in Inkscape just fine. So I guess I might just have to wait for my new hard drive to work on this file.

thank you guys for helping out and teaching me something I did not know about Inkscape. I will have to use less raster images in my SVG's from now on.

Maybe it's something related with using the liveUSB, but more I can't say.

It's not that embedding images in SVG is a big issue. Is the combination of that and systems with small amounts of RAM, or very old hardware. In your case, I believe, is the use of a Live USB distro... and something else??. So far, the best solution is keep your file and wait for your new hard drive. I don't think there will be more problems